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Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes. Read it first when I was 16, at the recommendation of my literature teacher in high school. For the past... - darn, this was long ago! - ...mo…

You can limit your search to certain repositories on GitHub, with advanced search: https://github.com/search/advanced You will need to enter the repositories by hand, though. Mind …

You know what would be amazing? Combining this with logic programming. (run 100 [box] (fresh [x y z] (randomo x) (randomo y) (randomo z) (locationo box x y z))) (Overly simplified …

Is there anything like blessed + blessed-contrib for either of those? It'd be fairly trivial to write the bulk of potential-happiness in Java, if there was a display library like b…

Author here. I'm running this in "production" (kinda, on laptop, looking at data from my own servers), and works for me. There are some annoying shortcomings, though, which I will …

Why do you need an URL shortener to begin with? (See http://joshua.schachter.org/2009/04/on-url-shorteners for some great reasons against them)

I remember http://lamsonproject.org/ being a python SMTP server library thing. It may be possible to piece together something based on it. That covers the SMTP part. Mind you, the …

> you're saying that yours is unconditionally better I don't think I'm saying that. The article presents two setups and a few related use cases, where I believe binary log storage …

I assume this comment is related to the journal. The article is not. But, to reply: yes, many organisations have fully functional, well-debugged logging infrastructures. A lot of t…

I experimented with that, and heard others toying with the idea too. There are even products out there that do something similar.

Agreed. But if I keep my logs in a database, I may aswell use the database to query my logs, instead of grepping in them. (And voila, you have binary log storage.)

Why would I need to be able to parse everything up front? Taking the syslog example, that has a commonly understood format. As a default case, I can just split the parts and have s…

With a binary log storage system, nothing stops you from browsing all logs that happened around the time of the incident. Instead of locating the files, you just tell the engine to…

Please don't confuse log storage with log transport. We can transform the stored format into any other, if so need be. (For example, I use Kibana at home. Works great, though I hav…

The machines I'm administering will all log the same way, therefore, within that context, they are universal. We have well documented tools and workflows, so anyone new to the syst…

* Why would you need a proprietary tool? * What if they get broken? I don't want to look at them raw anyway. * Text logs are easy to corrupt as well. Oh, append only? Well, you can…

I've worked with a number of implementations, both embedded and others (ranging from a PC under my desk, through dozen-node clusters to ~hundred nodes). For most cases, binary stor…

My small system is usually two computers. Having a router/proxy/firewall box at home is not all that uncommon, and some examples I gave apply there nicely.

You're missing the point. I'm not using a custom logging format. I'm using binary log storage , with emphasis on the storage. There is a database and a search engine behind it. Log…

Bringing a few extra tools for forensics should not be a problem. You bring grep, strings, less, and a bunch more to read text logs. Why not bring one more to read the binary dump …